Practice Impulse and Response to Unit Impulse - 9 | 9. Impulse and Response to Unit Impulse | Earthquake Engineering - Vol 1
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Question 1

Easy

What is an impulse in terms of forces?

💡 Hint: Think about sudden forces in nature, like explosions.

Question 2

Easy

What does the Dirac delta function signify?

💡 Hint: It can be thought of as a spike in a graph.

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Question 1

What is the primary use of the Dirac delta function?

  • A) To define steady-state forces
  • B) To represent impulse forces
  • C) To calculate static loads

💡 Hint: Consider when forces act briefly and with high magnitude.

Question 2

True or False: The impulse response function is used to determine how systems behave to arbitrary forces.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Think about how systems can react to any input based on their impulse behavior.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Given a mass-spring-damper system with m = 2kg, c = 0.5 Ns/m, and k = 8 N/m, determine the response x(t) under unit impulse input.

💡 Hint: Use the derived formulas for impulse response in your calculations.

Question 2

Explain the impact of increasing the damping ratio on the decay rate of oscillations in an SDOF system subjected to impulse.

💡 Hint: Think about energy dissipation and system stability.

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